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A student wants to calculate the amount of copper deposited on the cathode during the electrolysis of a copper (II) sulfate solution. If 2.5 A of current is passed through the cell for 10 minutes, what is the mass of copper that is deposited on the cathode? (Assume the atomic weight of copper is 63.55 g/mol and the Faraday constant is 96,485 C/mol).

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To calculate the mass of copper deposited on the cathode, we can use Faraday's law of electrolysis. The formula is:mass =  current  time  molar mass  /  n  Faraday constant where:- mass is the mass of copper deposited  in grams - current is the electric current  in amperes - time is the duration of electrolysis  in seconds - molar mass is the molar mass of copper  in grams per mole - n is the number of electrons transferred per copper ion  in this case, it's 2 for Cu - Faraday constant is the charge per mole of electrons  in coulombs per mole First, we need to convert the time from minutes to seconds:10 minutes  60 seconds/minute = 600 secondsNow, we can plug in the values into the formula:mass =  2.5 A  600 s  63.55 g/mol  /  2  96,485 C/mol mass =  1500 C  63.55 g/mol  /  192,970 C/mol mass  0.492 gSo, the mass of copper deposited on the cathode is approximately 0.492 grams.

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